Aketo Nakamura

Aketo Nakamura (11 April 1889-12 September 1966) was a Lieutenant-General of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.

Biography
Aketo Nakamura was born on 11 April 1889 in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. He graduated from the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1910 and then from the Army War College in December 1919, rising through the ranks. From 1925 to 1928, he served as a military attache to the Weimar Republic of Germany, and he was promoted to Major-General in 1937. He served in the Second-Sino Japanese War, and Nakamura led the 1940 invasion of French Indochina to acquire badly needed raw materials for the Japanese war machine in China. He was detained in Sugamo Prison from 1945 to 1946, and he was released without charge. Nakamura died in 1966.